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The county-wide Justice Courts Local Rules for Discovery, effective July 1, 2015 and signed by the justices of the peace (the signature page names Hon. Sergio De Leon, Precinct 5; Hon. Matt Hayes, Precinct 7; Hon. Gary Ritchie, Precinct 6, among the signers): court-approved pretrial discovery only (TRCP 500.9 as then numbered); an objection-proof General Disclosure Request; a discovery period from the signed order to 30 days before trial; six deposition hours and fifteen interrogatories, fifteen requests for production and fifteen requests for admission per party; supplementation within 14 days and no later than 21 days before trial with exclusion of late material absent good cause or lack of surprise; a mandatory Certificate of Discovery Conference on every discovery motion; telephone or electronic discovery hearings on written request; and 30-day post-judgment discovery objections. Precincts 1 and 2 re-issued the same text as court-specific revisions in 2026 (TOPICs docs 2950 and 2952).
Texas > Tarrant County > the Justice Courts (all precincts) — pretrial and post-judgment discovery in civil cases. Precinct 1 (rev. Apr. 30, 2026) and Precinct 2 (rev. May 1, 2026) publish updated court editions of this text, composed separately from their TOPICs registrations.
"DISCOVERY – TIME PERIODS and LIMITATIONS … 1. Pre-trial Discovery Period – All discovery must be conducted during the discovery period which begins when the judge issues a signed order approving the discovery request and concludes the earlier of a date set by the court or no later than 30 days before trial. 2. Each party may have no more than six (6) hours in total to examine and cross-examine all witnesses in oral depositions. 3. A party may serve on any other party no more than fifteen (15) written Interrogatories. Each discrete subpart of an interrogatory is considered a separate interrogatory. 4. A party may serve on any other party no more than fifteen (15) Requests for Production. … 5. A party may serve on any other party no more than fifteen (15) Requests for Admissions. …" "GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE PRE-TRIAL DISCOVERY REQUESTS — General Disclosure Request: The following discoverable information is acceptable and considered to be a General Disclosure Request for Pre-Trial Discovery requests, and no objection or assertion of work product is permitted to a request under this general disclosure Rule." (parties' correct names; potential parties; legal theories and factual bases; damages and method of calculation; persons with knowledge; testifying-expert disclosures; witness statements; medical records and bills in injury suits; responsible third parties.) "PRE-TRIAL DISCOVERY: DUTY TO TIMELY AMEND OR SUPPLEMENT … Generally, a reasonably prompt time is considered to be within 14 days of the party discovering their response needs amending or supplementing, and no later than 21 days before trial." "A party who fails to make, amend or supplement a pre-trial discovery response in a reasonably prompt time may not be permitted introduce in evidence the material or information that was not timely disclosed, or offer the testimony of a witness (other than a named party) who was not timely identified unless the court finds that: (1) There was good cause …; or (2) The failure … will not unfairly surprise or unfairly prejudice the other parties." "DISPUTES – PRE-TRIAL and POST-JUDGMENT DISCOVERY: The parties shall attempt to resolve any discovery question, problem or dispute before intervention by the court. Any discovery motion shall contain a Certificate of Discovery Conference by the requesting party or counsel filing the same." (three model certificates follow.) "DISPUTES – HEARINGS by TELEPHONIC or ELECTRONIC MEANS: On written request of a party and with consent of the Judge, a matter involving Justice Court discovery may be conducted by telephone or other electronic means. The moving party shall be responsible for advising opposing parties of the method and time of hearing and; if so notified by the court, shall be responsible for arranging the conference call." Post-judgment discovery: 30 days to respond; written objections within 30 days; hearing on any objection.
"DISCOVERY – TIME PERIODS and LIMITATIONS … 1. Pre-trial Discovery Period – All discovery must be conducted during the discovery period which begins when the judge issues a signed order approving the discovery request and concludes the earlier of a date set by the court or no later than 30 days before trial. 2. Each party may have no more than six (6) hours in total to examine and cross-examine al
Reviewer note: Own-site instrument (not itself in the TOPICs registry; its 2026 precinct revisions are docs 2950/2952): 11-page text-layer PDF (11,096 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim; the signature page is partly illegible in the text layer (De Leon, Hayes and Ritchie legible). Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant (own-site lane).